The author's personal saga of what has happened with the first of the SF Gezka & Kiel novels is the story of a real life series of tribulations in the life of a woman in her early 20s; her work life, her life as a high performance undergraduate and her first intensely passionate romance that culminated in a marriage that painfully turned into a travesty of error until it ended despite her protestations. That was the late 1980s.
Somehow in all that, the novel managed to be honed into a decent 2nd draft, to have the normal 5 readers...but then, neither was committed to secure computer filings and there were only two complete manuscripts. One ended up on the reverse side of letters to a university professor of philosophy and the other ended up tucked away amongst the things of a helpful but very short term lover. That was the early 1990s.
The novel managed to get an agent and to be reconstructed up to about 30,000 words in 2008 only to be lost to the demon "make back up files" in a hardware accident that irreparably fried it.
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